# Shiyali, Brahmapurīśvara temple, time of king Kōpperuciṅkaṉ, no year

Renato Dávalos

Author of digital edition: Renato Dávalos

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv12p0i0252

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: SII12_adapted/DHARMA_INStfaSIIv12p0i0252.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-13 15:30 (078960b), last modified 2026-11-11 17:46
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## Summary

Fragmentary inscription. Seems to record gift of land for reciting
tiruppatiyam in the temple of Aḷḷuṭaiya-Piḷḷaiyār.

## Palaeographic description

No distinction between e and ē, nor between o and ō.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [3+][caka]lapuvaṉa-c cakravattikaḷ śrī-kō-p-peruñ-ciṅkatēva [6+]

⟨2⟩ [5+] ṅkaḷukkum uṭalāka naṭuvil nāṭāṉa Irā[ja]rāja [6+] ⟨3⟩
[3+][pi]ḷḷaiyār kōyi(li)l tiruppatiyam viṇṇappañ(-c)e [5+] ⟨4⟩ [5+]
ṉṉila[m o]ṉṟē oṉpatu māvum (t)ēvatāṉa kā [7+]

⟨5⟩ [5+] ḻa-p pal(la)varaiyaṉe [7+]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ […] king Kōpperuciṅkaṉ, emperor of all worlds […]

⟨2–4⟩ […] as capital for […] a tēvatāna comprising 1 9/20 (vēli) of land
[…] request for the holy hymns (tiruppatiyam) in the temple of
[Āḷuṭaiya-Pi]ḷḷaiyār […]

⟨5⟩ […] Pallavaraiyaṉ […]

## Bibliography

First reported in ARIE 1917–18 (ARIE/1917-1918/B/1917/367).

First edited Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943 (SII 12.252).

Digitally encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Renato Dávalos
(2024), based on Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943. First
translated by Renato Dávalos (2024).

### Primary

[VA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
157, item 252.

### Secondary

ARIE 1917–18. G.O. No. 1172, 6th September 1918. Epigraphy. Recording,
with remarks, the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological
Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1917-1918.
Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1918. Page 34, appendix B/367,
item 367.